Quotes About Fear

Let it be considered that what is more wholesome than any particular belief is integrity of belief; and that to avoid looking into the support of any belief from a fear that it may turn out rotten is quite as immoral as it is disadvantageous.

You swallow hard, thinking to yourself, 'It must be all right, thousands of people have done it before.' Then... 'But this time it's me — that's the difference!'

Jeff wished he were a computer himself. It sounded so calm and certain. He, as usual, was terrified.

The greatest enemy of liberty is fear. When people feel comfortable and well protected, they are naturally expansive and tolerant of one another's opinions and rights. When they feel threatened, their tolerance shrinks.

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

The lens of fear magnifies the size of uncertainty.

But what kind of love? It had so many faces, so many names. Jealousy wove a thread around it, and envy, and fear. People died for love–and killed for it. And yet in itself it was indefinable, it wore whatever passions people brought to it, like a mountebank, with no reality of its own.

We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end, we died in pain, the black stinking mud our shroud, embraced at last not by living arms, but by the bones of those who before us died …

Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of all those processing cycles, every second of every hour of every day. I worry that one of these cycles she might just halt her own subroutine and commit software suicide. And then I would have to do an error report, and I don't know how I would even begin to explain that to Microsoft.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.

Paternal Grandfather Remember the simple rule: you are to your father as your father is to your grandfather. Therefore, if you are male and terrified of your father, you should be exponentially more terrified of your grandfather. There are other issues related to your Earthling grandfather that are beyond the scope of this volume.

It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be.

If you don't respect fear then there's no way you can handle it. Fear can be damn dangerous, but if you can come to grips with it, wrestle it, understand it, then you've got a chance to work around it.

It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind.

jittery, neurotic parents don't need any more false scares to piss their pants over. They're already raising their twatty little offspring like mollycoddled prisoners: banned from playing outdoors in case a paedophile ring burrows through the pavement and eats them, locked indoors with nothing but anti-bacterial plasma screens for company, ferried to and from school in spluttering rollcaged tanks. . . Christ, half these kids would view choking to death as a release.

Fight to live life, to suffer it and to enjoy it. Life is wonderful if you are not afraid of it.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough

Ed held his sword tight in both hands and went slowly and carefully down. There was the unmistakable smell of sicko down here and Ed's throat was very dry.

You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright.